It's going to be a great one-day series
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Oh, it pissed down on us three times during the match, but I still managed to get sunburned at the same time..
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Oh and hatch got in a huff with me for taking pictures of comedy breasts...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Not even Julia Gillard could conjure a defeat of the English cricket team as its juggernaut rolled to a comfortable seven-wicket win against the Prime Minister's XI at Manuka Oval yesterday.
It wasn't just the weather but also the Pommie batsmen that dampened the enthusiasm of the 7700 fans as the scheduled 50 overs were gradually washed down to just 35 by the end of the England innings.
Cricket ACT chief executive officer Mark Vergano estimated the rain cost about 5000 bums on seats but still counted the day as a success.
''It shows that we can on January 10 people say there's no one in Canberra we can still hold an event with over 7000 people in attendance, so we're pretty happy with it for this time of year,'' he said.
With no repeat of last year's fireworks when Chris Gayle of the West Indies smashed a stunning 146 off 89 balls, they were left largely to amuse themselves although Ian Bell did chip in with a better-than-a-run-a-ball hundred that captain Paul Collingwood described as ''clinical''.
One spectator got down to the bare essentials.
In Australia that means the Mexican wave is sent round the ground, although the boys in blue did step in to make sure even that didn't get too out of hand.
With the Pommie openers, Ian Bell and Steven Davies, cruising it wasn't until the wave was brought on that they looked like getting out.
Perhaps the crowd should be given credit for the first wicket?
It wouldn't be a game involving the English without some fancy dress and at least one nun drinking beer. There was also a joker who perhaps no one wanted to claim. He invaded the pitch clad only in his undies.
The Aussies got in the act as five ''Julia Gillards'' threw their full support behind Victorian youngster Alex Keath, who perhaps got a taste of things to come in front of Manuka's equivalent of Bay 13.
Jordan Peters, one of the fake Julias, was bemoaning the rain.
''We were going to dress fully but the rains were coming we had dresses and everything,'' he said.
Mr Peters thought it could be changed to a Twenty20 fixture in the future - something Mr Vergano didn't rule out.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/lo ... 43689.aspx
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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I call foul it doesn't really count as a streak unless everything is dangling in the wind.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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Ah, that was the newspaper image, he removed his knickers at one point in the chase. 
I have photos if you want proof!
I have photos if you want proof!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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"So you win again..."
Errol Brown.
Errol Brown.
A HERCULEAN effort from Shane Watson was not enough to prevent England notching a dramatic last-ball victory over Australia in the team's Twenty20 international in Adelaide last night.
The absences of England's most dominant Ashes performers, chiefly Alastair Cook and James Anderson, were irrelevant as unheralded debutant Chris Woakes, having dragged England level with Australia's score of 4-157 with one ball remaining, hit Watson over the infield from the last ball of the match to seal the victory.
The result condemned Australia to a fifth consecutive T20 defeat and extended England's winning streak in the shortest form of the game to an unprecedented eight matches.
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/wat ... 19oa0.html
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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First one-dayer kicks off today, and I'm in bloody work. 
Sun 16 Jan (D/N)
1st ODI - Australia vs England
Melbourne Cricket Ground
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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That has got to be one of the whitest fucks I've ever seen...
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer-
Arthur Schopenhauer-